After, the New 50 Shades, Might Be Getting a Movie

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One Direction fan-fiction trilogy After might be getting a movie deal. The author, 25-year-old Anna Todd, has signed on with United Talent Agency for potential development on the big screen (via Deadline). And may God help us all.

The story's summary reads: "Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Harry, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans." "Harry" is Harry Styles.

The worst part about After is not that its own author admits it's pretty terribly written, but that it promotes abusive relationships. It's 50 Shades, but instead of a loving boyfriend who has a dark fetish, Harry is just a terrible boyfriend who is constantly belittling Tessa and getting hand jobs from her anyway. The fact that teenage girls idolize the story is disturbing.

But After has been hailed as the new 50 Shades of Grey anyway, solely because of three things they have in common: a basis in fan fiction, lots of sex scenes, and a cult-like following. Todd's Instagram account for After has almost 250,000 followers who submit sexy photoshopped images of Harry and the books' protagonist, Tessa, and the fake couple's hashtag, #hessa, gets hundreds of tweets per day. The trilogy itself allegedly has more than 600 million reads.

Todd did clarify on her Instagram that Harry Styles will not be involved in the movie in any way, but it will obviously do well regardless.